Banned Baby Names: French Couple Banned From Using Tilde In Son's Name

And other banned names throughout the world.

The court in Quimper ruled that the new parents weren’t able to use the character ñ (called a tilde) in their baby’s name.

“The principle according to which babies’ names are chosen by their mothers and fathers must have limits when it comes to using a spelling which includes a character unrecognised by the French language,” the court in the town of Quimper, in northwest France, ruled, according to the Guardian.

The character, used in Spanish and Portugese, indicates nasalisation, for example being pronounced as ‘ny’ in señor.

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The baby, born in May 2017, reportedly already has an identitiy card and passport with a tilde on it.

The boy’s father, Jean-Christophe Bernard, told The Guardian: “He will have his tilde, that’s for sure.”